title: Use of the Endurant stent graft system for ruptured infrarenal aortic aneurysms: short-term experience in nine patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the early results of use of the Endurant stent graft in the treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs).
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine consecutive patients (seven men and two women; mean age, 76 y; range, 65-87 y) underwent endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for a ruptured AAA with the Endurant stent graft between April and December 2012. EVAR was emergent in all cases. Early technical success, clinical success, major complication, and mortality rates were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Intraoperative immediate technical success was achieved in all nine patients. The 30-day clinical success rate was 67% (six of nine patients). The 30-day mortality rate was 33% (three of nine patients). During a mean follow-up of 6 months (range, 3-10 mo), none of the cases required reintervention; there was one late death attributed to probable endograft infection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The short-term results of EVAR with the Endurant stent graft in patients with ruptured AAAs are encouraging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Radiology, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, 31-27, Omiya-cho, Saiwai-Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, 212-0014, Japan. Electronic address: r06118@hotmail.co.jp.
authors.forename: Yuya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: Jun-ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishimaki
authors.forename: Soichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hase
authors.forename: Nobukazu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moriya
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujikawa
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sekine
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: AAA; EVAR; IIA; abdominal aortic aneurysm; endovascular aneurysm repair; internal iliac artery